Blockchains

The first cut since Solana’s inception shortens the block-production window for validators and begins an epoch-by-epoch path toward 200 milliseconds.

Official materials name Circle and 11 founding validators, while an Arc documentation page describes approximately 20 validators at launch.

The Dubai-licensed RWA Layer 1 has been frozen since Thursday evening. MANTRA says the incident touched two wallets it controls and that no user funds were taken, and has not said whether anything left those wallets.

Test in Prod, a core development team that says it is fully funded by the Optimism Collective, supplied the 8.486 million OP vote that secured approval.

Chain owners—not ArbitrumDAO—control screening on dedicated networks, while priority fees remain off on Arbitrum One pending another vote.

GnosisDAO approved a strategic shift from standalone Layer 1 to an Ethereum-settled rollup, unlocking about 350,000 GNO and ending treasury-funded staking rewards.

Robinhood Chain crosses $1 billion in total assets as tokenized-finance infrastructure enters production. The RPC layer underneath is what determines whether regulated builders can actually ship.

Teraswitch confirmed a 12-site routing failure; Marinade said 94% of the 118.89 million SOL on its autonomous system went dark.

Flash.Trade's founder said Foundation backing for a rival contributed to his decision to wind the perps exchange down. Foundation president Lily Liu says the market decides who wins.

Dashjr lost editor and admin access to the BIPs repository about 26 hours after Mark "Murch" Erhardt filed a motion on the developer mailing list. Dashjr called the accusations false. Minutes before the removal was confirmed, he announced a sabbatical from mining pool Ocean.